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There are five main ways that scammers try to fool college students. These strategies include the bogus student tax, tuition scams, fake credit cards, false rental listings and friendly fraud, according to pix11.com.

Bogus student taxes involve IRS impersonators calling college students and demanding they pay a tax they supposedly owe, telling victims to wire the money or risk facing criminal charges.

Tuition scams are similar to student tax fraud. An impersonator will attempt to fool students into thinking that they owe money that they do not owe in reality. With this scam, the student receives alerts about late tuition payments and claims that the student will be dropped from all of their classes if a payment is not made.

Scammers also attempt to steal a student’s identity by encouraging them to sign up for fake credit cards.

Students often receive offers to sign up for pre-approved credit cards and may give their information to sketchy sources, which could potentially result in stolen identities.

Tim Flynn, a School of Art and Science junior, has had many "bogus" calls in the past, but usually he hangs up when he receives them.

The student will send deposits and rent payments online to a supposed landlord who will then take the money and disappear.

Sometimes the scammers are victims' friends or family members.

Friendly fraud occurs when someone close to the victim looks through their private belongings when they are not at their residence hall and steals vital information from them. Students are advised to keep important information locked away and hidden to prevent themselves from becoming victims.

Nicholas Provenzano, a Rutgers School of Arts and Science junior, once had his credit card stolen.

“I checked my online banking and saw there were purchases that I did not make," he said. "I then had to call Bank of America to get those charges cancelled and they sent me a new card.”